Episode 168 - "Rising to the Safety Challenge: JFW's Commitment to Excellence"

Music. What's up, JFW family? Welcome back to the Channel 23 podcast.

The purpose of this podcast is to reach out and touch the fleet, to engage and inform everyone with all things JFW. Good morning, Jim White, Brother Dave White, and Super Dave Weldon. What's happening, everybody? Morning, everybody. I hope you guys all have a great day at work today. Absolutely. Podcast Wednesday. Mm-hmm. Whoop, whoop. And what do we do on podcast day? We pledge our allegiance. We do.

We say the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Three out of four people in this room are sick today. So if we sound sick, it's because we are. It is definitely going around. I mean, everybody you talk to, I went to that retirement party last night and half of them, they were sick too. their company, it's just been it's hitting,

Last week, we prayed for Carlos Meza, and he's back, so our prayers work. Good for you. And we prayed over Erica's surgery and a smooth recovery, and I think that prayer worked too. I think she did have a good surgery, but she showed us the scar today. Ooh. Oh, my God. I know I told you guys I tested her just to see, and she failed. Right. Need some help with this? Just so everybody knows, Erica is on restricted duty.

If you see her doing anything, like lifting over two and a half pounds, even with her good arm, report her to Jim White. I check people, though, with scars, man, that they're living. You know what I mean? And it doesn't matter. You could be a supermodel. If I met you and you had a big old frigging scar across your face, I'd be like, you're living. Yeah, we call those trophies. Yes. Yeah. When I tell everybody, I don't want to show up at the pearly gates, pristine and clean and hair combed.

I want to be like scarred, beaten, battered, like lived. You want to be the person in the arena. Absolutely. I want to, I want to have lived, not just standing there twiddling my thumbs going, I'm glad I made it. There you go. Yep. All right. Father God, we thank you for the opportunity to go out and do some chucking today. We pray for the safety of our fleet, all of their families, and all the other families and individuals we came across on the road today.

We pray for patience in making good, safe decisions. We pray to be accident-free and that we all make it back to the comforts of our homes this evening. We pray for healing and 100% recovery for all of our family members that are ill.

No matter what, we trust you, God, and it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. man as a reminder anything you hear in today's podcast is just our expressed opinions it's not jfw's opinion something like that. Safety topics are JFW's opinion. Absolutely. We're paid to tell you about those, but not about our opinions. I love our disclaimer. Episode 167, just right on track with the normal stats, 302 downloads. We are at 88.3 thousand total downloads, and we are at 685 followers.

That number keeps growing. That's outstanding. It's crazy. I do keep running into more and more people that that have listened or know about us or, you know, that kind of stuff. Yeah. You know, it's, it's, it's awesome to hear about it. Do you guys know why you should never date a pastry chef? Pastry chef. They're, they're full of dough. No, you know. I've never dated a pastry chef. It's clear. I never saw what I liked. If you did, you know what they would do

to you, Super Dave? They would desert you. Wow. Bueno there, huh? It is funny. Mine's almost as good as yours, Jam. Why are peppers so good at archery? Oh, something to do with a habanero? Because they habanero. Oh, there you go. That's a good one. Thanks, Big Country. Oh, Big Country gave me mine. You did? Yeah. Oh, yeah, he's working it. He's working it.

That's awesome. Well, I've got one about a woman, this pretty well-off-to-do family that they have a maid and this woman's kind of mad because the maid asked her for a raise and the wife was upset she asked the maid now helen why do you think you deserve a pay increase helen goes well there are three reasons the first is that i ironed better than you and the wife is like who said that and helen says well your husband did the wife says oh and then helen says well the second reason is that

i'm a better cook than you the wife says who said that and helen says your husband did the wife's like oh and helen says and the third reason is that i'm better at sex than you and helen says, Did my, or the wife says, did my husband say that as well? Helen says, no, the gardener did. And the wife says, so how much do you want?

Oh, not bad. So I got my joke last night from Pat James, Patty. She's just a little shout out to her. She retired from Sam Hill Oil, worked there 25 years, and she just turned 87 years old. God bless. Absolutely. Had her sons there and her coworkers and stuff like that. And she said at 87, she said, the only thing that's fabulous on me and is working is my hair. She's got beautiful hair and she goes, everything else has went to hell though.

She said, so she, she gave a, you know, a thank you speech and a farewell speech. And she ended it with these two little old ladies are out driving one day and the one lady sitting in the passenger seat and they went right through this stop sign. Lady just kind of sat there and she goes, okay, I'm, I'm just not going to say something, you know, and they're driving along a little farther and man, right through a red light, not, not a break, nothing. Her friend didn't hit the brakes, nothing.

She's like, wow, I don't know, and goes a little bit longer, and here's another stop sign. Right through the stop sign, never a break, nothing. She looks over at her good friend, and she goes, Ethel, you've just ran two stop signs, a stoplight. She goes, what's up? Ethel looks back at her and goes, I'm driving? Yeah, that's great.

Funny. Right. new employees we have tim riley and aaron swazo started today welcome to the fleet men and then we have kyle galitz he is the newest member of the safety team so kyle comes from galitz trucking and you haven't met him at the fuel aisle or over yard 23 you will yes welcome aboard everybody yeah welcome everybody and and kyle we've had him in jr's classes and casey's classes and he's orientation and getting his feet wet and we

haven't made a full announcement on it we wanted to get him get him going and get him trained and and out and about and get email set up and get him on connect and all the good stuff before we made it made an announcement about him being part of the team but he brings a lot of family history and and knowledge because that's all he's done his whole life kind of like me and dave so excited to have him on board and and help out so if you you run into him introduce yourself and

and hopefully he can help you out you can help him out amen celebrations no anniversaries this week but we got plenty of birthdays this past sunday jeff soto and ann peterson shared a birthday happy birthday yeah then tomorrow nicole gomez and our very own super dave weldon share a birthday. Birthday birthday yeah we're birthday buddies you are birthday buddies are you gonna get each other anything, I don't think you started on the same day, though. No. No. We're not the same age either.

Well, two people do have the same exact birthday that are the same exact age, and I'll get to them in a minute. But first, George Pacita's daughter, Lauren, and Jonathan McHugh's wife, Alicia, they shared a birthday on Monday the 3rd. Nice. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. And then Jackie Weldon and Susan Hawk, they both shared a birthday yesterday, and they're the same exact age. Awesome.

Happy birthday, Jackie and Susan. You should give Dan Hawk a call and be like, we are birthday brothers via our wives. Wives. I think that will. Be a good idea. Shout outs. Dustin Romero wants to give a shout out to Sammy Galletas Diaz, Mike Burtz, Omar Santa Cruz for helping sweeping out during ice cooker loads. He really appreciated the help. So appreciate that JFW family love. Yeah, that's awesome. That is.

Elvin wants to give a shout-out to 003 Eric Eichner for staying with me and ensuring that I was able to get the help I needed when my tire went out. Some more good brotherly love. Yeah, good stuff there. Louis Cantino wants to give a shout-out to 0099. Is that Alex Reza still, 99? I think that's Alex Reza. Wouldn't that be, Sue? Yes. Shout-out to Alex for helping me out yesterday at C-Max. Well, good stuff. And then JR won't. Do we know in what way? Helping them out at C-Mex. Nice.

That's all the message said. Gotcha. JR wants to give a shout out to Chili Dog for tagging along on Tippers yesterday to have one more person know where they're at and how they work and stuff like that. That's awesome. That is good stuff. Yeah. Any shout outs from you guys? Yeah. I want to mention JR.

I know he went on the Tipper yesterday and Jam, you were part of that shout out also for saturday you guys worked late saturday trying to figure out the tipper and i think he ended up having i'm going to call it an emergency if one of the tippers actually used the skid steer and i know scooby came down and helped out i know mikey came down and helped out it was just a good big team effort and then back to jr he got a call sunday night and went out and helped somebody that you know we posted

it on the connect about the truck that ran out in the farmer's field missed the corner and was on his phone. JR handled that Sunday night, and I know he was out until 10.30, the last message he sent us Sunday night. So again, just a shout-out for JR.

Good long weekend for him. Appreciate all the help. And I know the person that ran out in the field, that was our Knight Coors driver. I want to give a shout out to Jason. He's wanted to go back to days and he's having to fill in on Knights again. And I think we're trying to get, what's the new gentleman? Neil Yarborough. Neil. Neil trained up to help out on Coors. So a lot of, it's a different, I talked to, gosh, I just talked to somebody, wish I could remember.

Oh, it was Tracy talking about driving at night to these locations and driving during the day to these locations because you, you, you use different markers. Oh, I'm coming up on this building. I can see my turns up here. Well, at night, maybe you can't see that. Right. And so it's a, it's a big deal making those deliveries at night. So Jason, thank you for jumping back in and all of you guys.

And then I want to give a shout out to Elvin and I know So, Jim is going to talk about it a little bit later here in the podcast, but Alvin came to us this morning and had questions about the survey for the podcast. And he goes, hey, I've missed it. And it was still open this morning because we haven't done this podcast. But we're like, Alvin, go get your phone, man. Let's walk. We're here for you. We want you to pass this test. And I guess I want to tell everybody.

I want everybody to pass and I'm calling it a test, the survey, the, the whatever. It's an engagement. It's a way to check engagement. We're not after flunking you. We're not after thinking badly about you. We just want the engagement, you know, and we helped Delvin out. And I was like, you'll, you'll help. You know, he didn't say you'll help. I think it shocked him that let's help you. Let's, let's get through this. We're a team.

Yeah. Four guys there helping them. And the thing is he knew all the answers. He did. He knew every one of them. And it just, you just had to talk it out, you know? And so, yeah, thank you, Alvin, for, for being here. And, and I hope you have a great day. Shout out to you and, and all the guys. I piggyback on shout out to JR. He's just been jumping in everywhere lately.

This morning, I was running late, and as I pulled up, I seen the light up on in here in this room, and he was getting the podcast set up. I know he wants to practice for next week. He'll be running the podcast, so shout out for that too. But it was nice to come in here panicking, just feeling behind. And actually, I wasn't behind because JR jumped in. That's awesome. Great job, JR. Thank you. That's looking forward, right? Trying to help everybody out and seeing what's next. That's fantastic.

Any other shout outs, Scott? I have one for a meeting that we were scheduled for that I unfortunately had to miss yesterday, but I'd like to throw a shout out to Steve. I don't even know Steve's last name from Holmes and Murphy. Miller. Miller, Steve Miller. That's right. That's right. Sorry, Steve, if you're listening.

Yeah, I understood it was a great meeting for the new path we're going to be taking for our health insurance for next year and just some different changes and some things we got going on. And so super excited for that and appreciative of the assistance thus far and, you know, what things are going to look like. So we're excited. Yeah, it was educational. And he had Lauren with him, going to be part of his team. And it was nice to meet her. And it was very, it was a good meeting, Dave.

Yeah, I was, Jones, I missed it. I knew everybody that was here was going to handle it. But, you know, we got duped on the last one. So I think more heads are better than fewer, right? Yeah, absolutely. But it's always, it's always good to hear that person. You know, we can fill you in, but when you can hear it, you know, it's sinking in right then and there, Dave. And I know you, I told him, you excuse yourself. You had to go help Mikey and stuff, but yeah, it's, it's different.

Yeah. That, that meeting had a different vibe to it. I felt like it was with two very down to earth, honest people that just want to really help and do their best for us. So. Yeah. That's great. Yeah. Good stuff. Any other shout outs, guys? I got mine.

All right. Well, let's get into the discussion for this week's podcast. A couple of house cleaning items, housekeeping items, I should say. Number one, broken tire chains. When you come back with broken tire chains, that's not something that we're going to fix.

Those are garbage. We don't throw them in the regular green dumpster but we would like those put in our steel bin and that could get recycled but it looks kind of like there's a graveyard for tire chains here and at yard 23 and it's like you know leave them where they lie type of thing you know it's like oh i took them off here and they're just going to stand the floor here or on the brakes or you know the brake bin or but there's a there's an actual steel bin in the we'll call it northeast

corner of the yard where we put all our recyclable metals. And I, you'd have to get with Casey over at Yard 23. Yes. I know there's some place we're keeping metal. I'm not exactly sure. We don't have a band over there, but I know we have a spot.

Sure. And then we bring it over here, Dave. I know they, you know, Scooby's brought metal over and I know I'm pretty sure Casey has and stuff, but, and the thing too about just leaving them in case somebody would happen to pick them up thinking they're good chains. Right. That's the, that's the more dangerous spot. Yeah. The place that all belongs behind your trip. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, they, they, yeah. Yeah, we, we just don't need to look, we need help not looking like a junkyard, right?

We want to be a great trucking company. We don't want to look like a junkyard. We don't want to look like a junkyard. We don't want our parking spaces with a hundred broken brooms and shovels and all the shit out of the back of your trailer there. You know what I mean? Anytime something breaks in my house, I just leave it in a driveway. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. Agreed. Were you going to say something, Jim? No, no, just about stuff breaking down

when you're just, I'm just leaving it. Leave it where it lies. Plan 2 tickets, I know there's been some discussion and Jim put on our connect team. There was a little bit of a miscommunication. So what we need to do at Plan 2 currently is once you dump your load. Hopefully the loader has made himself available to you and he will sign your ticket right there.

So you're not going up into the batch office anymore. that was more time consuming and this is supposed to help save some time however i did hear jr speaking to chewy this morning about trying to get a box put back over there the big complaint was wet tickets or the tickets get put in there looking like origami and they gotta scan all the tickets i don't know what xp is for i guess i don't understand the whole process of they still need to scan tickets but you know jr feels

determined that if he could get a mailbox where all the tickets lay flat maybe we'll be back in business because it is still taking time because if the loader's loading rubble guess what he's not doing he's not coming over to selling your ticket right so but right now have the loader sign the tickets to plan to yep absolutely yep uh this is not just about rooms but frank mccoy mentioned if you if you use someone's truck and you break something on it will you

replace it nothing more frustrating than thinking you have good you know equipment like a broom or a shovel or a tailgate brush and you go to use it and it's broken and it wasn't broken when you left it so sounds like he had that happen three times this year where he came back to a broken broom but it could be a broom it could be the sledge it could be anything that you broke on that truck fix it it could be a mud flap you tore off.

Whatever it is, you want to set the other person up where he or she could come in the next morning and just do their pre-trip and off they go with no surprises. And that goes for all that different stuff, Jan. We talk about it and you find it, you know, you leave it better than what you found it, you know, along with the brooms and the shovel and something that might break, you know, just because it's not your truck, check the oil.

That's part of the pre-trip. Check the power steering, check the water, you know, you bring it back in.

So maybe it was empty that morning, fuel it back up, you know, set everybody up for success, fill the def back up just because you're slip seating or it's not your truck.

You know, it's the same thing. oh that's not my broom that's my shovel you still broke it you know replace it and and it's again we we talk about it over and over and over it's about being better we need to be we need to have a different culture and and the culture we build we need to work on it every day every day we need to have a 100 culture yeah what i mean by that is we do everything 100 we take it as far as we can take it for yourself and other people.

Post-trip inspections, they need to be done thoroughly every single day. And that includes everything. We don't decide what we check every day and what we don't check every day. You need to check it all every day to make sure your truck's ready to go for the next day. There's no reason a truck should ever be two gallons low of oil. There's no reason a power stair reservoir should be completely bone dry. There's no reason for flat tires in the mornings, you know, stuff like that.

Just check it all out thoroughly and give a hundred percent. And the, and the thing is, is it may catch you and I know we, we step up and pay for it, but it's the time, the few minutes it takes you to do this other stuff. And then if something does happen, like you missed the flat tire or you, you know, it is broke down. It's so much more time than you just walking around the truck and checking it out. You know, it might seem like a hassle at the end of the day, but it's certainly not.

And, you know, I had this note, I don't, I don't think it's in, in someplace else, but I'm, Talking about all this stuff, we were on a bandwagon and I think we backed off a little bit, but we were talking about the phone usage, why you're in your truck. Being on the phone, why you're in your truck. We had the last chance, a lot of people. We took some safety bonuses. We did a lot of stuff because we're always worried about the what if and what can happen.

And I know Sunday that I talked about with, with JR having to go out there, but we had a driver on his phone in the dark and he ran off the road. You guys, he ran out in the farmer's field and 180 yards, 180 yards. He was going 40 miles an hour down a dirt road. 180.4 yards. Yep. Yep. And the, and the thing about it, you guys is I told you he was on the phone the whole time, but you know. We, we, we try to do our best. We live our lives the best that we can, you know, thank God we're blessed.

We lucked out, you know, the trucker, trucker gods were watching, however you want to look at it. But when the truck ran off the road, there was no ditch that he went through. There was a, there was somewhat a rough road that has been used by the farmer and the driver didn't try to correct the truck and roll it. No barbed wire fence. No barbed wire fence. There's all this stuff. So we did go clear out into the field and the truck wasn't damaged.

You know, we are having to pay the farmer or do something to fix his field. But we talk about all this stuff because sooner or later it's going to happen. And all the stuff we did about the phone usage, here we have a driver on the phone. And he's been here long enough. He knows about the phone usage. He knows about the laws. He knows about our podcast, knows about all that, and was still on the phone and ran out in the field. Where I'm going with this is Mikey went out and met the tow wrecker.

They pulled the truck back. They had to hook to it three times to get it back. But Mike took the picture, and the tires of the truck, because it went straight off the road, are literally about two feet off this huge culvert. That the truck was just missed this culvert by two feet. If the truck would have hit that, it would have rolled the truck, ripped the front tires off the, the fuel tanks would have ran him into another ditch and, you know, outside chance it would have killed the driver.

And, you know, we're just, we're, you have to think of that, you guys, you have to, you have to be focused on the what if, and we don't, we don't make this stuff up. you guys. We're not asking you to do stuff that's okay. It's stuff that's dangerous. It's stuff that helps us. It's stuff that helps us be a hundred percent culture. Like you just said, Jam. And I don't know, you know, minus this, we've done safety meetings. We're doing podcasts. We talk about it week after week.

And, you know, I know I'm on the soapbox preaching here, but when do we get, when do we pay attention? When do we realize that we're doing this for something? So we went ahead and we, we put it on connect and you could, you can bring up the video. I'm sure you can figure out who the driver is. If you happen to know him, you know, make the, make the video big on the connect. You can see him looking at his phone as he's driving. You can see him scrolling the phone and the whole bit.

We posted that. We posted that educationally. We posted it to go, look, this is what happens. We weren't, we weren't bullshitting you, you know?

And as a safety team We all discussed Posting that visit That video right or wrong Right is that Is that embarrassing for the driver Is that something we shouldn't do legally Is that you know Whatever the circumstances We posted it for awareness And I know when we posted it We had some drivers Make some derogatory comments Semi You know semi You know and it's just. Because it's upsetting. You know, it's emotional. It shouldn't happen, you know?

So I'm talking about this part of it because it's everybody's reaction. But if that gets people's attention, I'm sorry. I'm for it. Because whether you're upset about the derogatory, you know, comments that weren't that bad, it's what you should be upset about is the crash.

That's the that's the meat and potatoes i know i hear what you're saying jim and i want to clarify a little more what you should be upset about is the person who chose to be on his phone while going 50 miles an hour on a dirt road in pitch black darkness with a turn coming up that's not a curve it's a effing left turn it is a yeah it is a hard left you look at a map it's not a curve it's a left turn and you should be upset about that.

You should be upset when you see, if you catch one of our, I'm going to call everybody here, our brethren, right? Whether you're our sister or brethren, it doesn't matter. I'm just using the loose term brethren. If you see someone on the phone driving for us, you need to get on the radio and call them out because your family could be next to that. And I'm going to say idiot. If we have people here on their phone while driving. I'm sorry, man. I'm calling you out. You are a freaking idiot.

You're taking your life and our livelihoods at risk. You put the pit in my stomach. You are the one that make me not sleep at night. You are the one that I hate to answer the phone call on that we have to deal with the clean up on.

And I just pray, I pray that you didn't injure someone that we have to pay for. Yeah, I would say most people are doing it right. And just judging by our Sampson scores and fuel efficiency and driver efficiency, we're learning a lot about the fleet and the majority of people are doing it right. But to the public, to the farmer who's filled that we're in, we're only as good as the one guy, that one guy.

You know, answering that phone call or calling that farmer back in the morning and asking how he's doing and, you know, being like, you're probably doing better if our truck was in the middle of your field.

Yeah there's you know luckily nobody got hurt oh by the way i did hear from him, and he actually leases our property so he's trying to get a hold of the lease farmer to see what all we need to do was he said alfalfa i think it wasn't like winter wheat or anything but then he asked if we haul gravel so who knows how this is going to shake out, so well willing to trade load a road base for our problem you know you you asked

jam what do you You know, what are we going to do about it the other day and somehow fix it? Yeah. You know, that's, that's our culture. There's nothing that, that we don't, we, we can't hide from it. Right. You guys. Yeah. We fix our mistakes and that was a big deal with our meeting last night. You know, we want people that'll be, you know, accountable for what they do. Absolutely.

Absolutely. You know, and I, you know, it might, might be a little off subject, but I just wanted to throw that out there and, you know, Dave's right. The phone usage how do we how do we stop that and there there is no way you can i mean you can thank it all you want that you're good enough to use your phone while you're driving and you're not no you know you'll get you'll get away with it you may get away with it for your whole life but there's something that that.

You, you, you're missing while using your phone and all there's to it. The majority of the people can't. Yeah. Yeah. Right. I'm not, like you just said, you may get away with it for the rest of your life. You might. Right. But the one time you don't, it's going to be ugly. Right. It doesn't matter if you're doing 50 or five miles an hour. You know, we've heard, oh, I was just in the pit. Well, how many accidents have we had the pit? Oh, I was just at the plant. I was stopped in traffic.

How many accidents have we had at the plant? How many accidents have we had?

Sitting in traffic i mean it is it doesn't end that that that phone is an effing drug and you are addicted to it that it is like if if if god knew phones were going to be invented it would be that would be our eighth deadly sin because you can't put it i'm and i'm guilty yeah i am just as addicted to it man i am guilty guilty guilty but god dang you can't freaking drive with it man yesterday driving home going that little back way that we go you know by the.

Refineries you mean no not the refineries to get back on uh 270 oh a forest forest yeah yeah we talked about that one day i used to know the middle of that street used to be the old police station is what we used to call it well we called it the police on there's no police station over there and they'll send a cop car when you turn off a 60th onto forest and then you left on Parkway to come out to 60th and Vasquez.

Yeah. So anyway, I'm stopped. I'm stopped on Parkway. I'm stopped on Forest Avenue to make that left. And it's dark over there. It is dark over there.

I go to make the left turn and out of the corner of my eye i see this little body you know what i mean and it just really creeped me out like they weren't even in the crosswalk yet but i didn't even see the person on the sidewalk like walking they were in dark clothes yeah you know so and you know the the 2500 they said i mean that person if you're not giving it your complete attention how easy is it to run somebody over because the other thing is the pedestrians they don't give a shit no yeah

i watched a guy in that and that the night before same place this guy's just walking i stopped like you know i grew up in new york when you're when you're crossing the street in new york you don't give anybody that you may have the right of way but you don't want to end up dead right you know you if you're walking in those cars it doesn't matter if it says welcome not.

That car is gonna run you over yeah you know and you know he's walking and i you know i come to a stop never even looks up if there's one thing that i could teach my daughter is when you're crossing the street don't just cross and look look at what's yeah look left look right look behind you look yeah like to me i could have just ran both of those people over yeah and they would have you know they're just walking that's a weird little area too jim because there there's a fair

amount of foot traffic there there's a lot of wheelchairs all homeless i mean it's there's It's a lot of action right there. Yeah. Fentanyl. There's a lot of fentanyl right there. Yeah. Right. Well, there's a fentanyl dispenser right there. It seems like it. It's the park. Yeah. I told Dave the other night, going home with Holly, it was last Monday, went down to the end of Newport here, you know, to make my left out onto 56th. Uh-huh. And it was clear coming at me, going east, and I started out.

To, to make the left and, and hit the brakes and Holly seen it at the same time, but all the traffic coming over the Hill, there was one car with its lights off and I didn't see it until I was, you know, I'd started out. And I mean, it both freaked me and Holly out. You could, I could, I could tell she was like, you know, there's no lights on that car.

Did you just, you know, see it? That kind of thing. And I, I told Dave, I mean, I don't know, looking back that one more time just catching it otherwise i would have pulled right out you can't you can't do that and look at your phone at the same time no that exactly exactly jam and i i mean i would have pulled out in front of the car and it would have hit me and i would have i would have told people i don't know what happened right i really wouldn't have because i i didn't

see it you got to be careful of the people walking because half the time they're just staring at their phone dude yeah that's they're not even paying attention to anything around them yeah right yeah yeah it's just trying to be better you guys and why why why take the chance and then and then don't you know i guess if we call you out on it too don't be upset about it you know right it's not we're trying to make you better we're not we're not trying to give you drugs

or something we're trying to take the drug away yeah yeah it's yeah is the drug the phone or is it the internet yeah yeah either. I mean, is it the marijuana or the pipe you're smoking out of? I mean, you go hand in hand, right? You don't need a pipe. I don't know how you use this movie. Is that part of what your day looks like, part two? I mean, somewhat jammed. You know, when we talked about that, you know, one of the questions from last week is what does your day look like?

What does it start out like? And, you know, we kind of focused on our tasks. And, I mean, right now I'm sitting here just waiting for a phone during that we had an accident that was our fault, you know, or that we, you know, whatever accident scenario it may be.

We're just waiting. I call it we're waiting for the shoe to drop.

You know what i mean we have lived this you know we go to bed with trucks running at night we wake up in the morning with trucks running you know we've got a dozen trucks running i-70 east and west now you know or 20 trucks east and west now to utah it's just a whole nother level of worry are one of those guys going to be sleepy are one of them going to be distracted on their phone are they going to hit ice in glenwood canyon are they you know i mean there

is just a million different worries and you know we're already sitting in a couple different lawsuits from accidents you know we don't talk about that stuff right we don't but we have an accident generally we're in a lawsuit we've got three accidents three lawsuits we've got a slip and fall lawsuit out at out at rola you know that that we're responsible for because we do the snow removal out there and people just like see what we do and think oh they're rich or whatever the case may

be it's always easy to just assume where you're at or what you're doing and i'm just saying it's stressful man and it takes one accident and i guess these podcasts the engagement questionnaire that we're asking for these are things to prove your engagement and what your worth and value that you're bringing to JFW is.

And that's what we need. We need to be sure the people that are listening to this podcast are engaged and they have a value that they share with us, with the leadership here, that they're not going to be on their phone, that they're going to be safe, that they're doing everything in their power to do things right. Because it doesn't take anything to do it wrong. You know what I mean? And we've said this before, no one wakes up in the morning and says, today I'm going to suck.

But if you make the wrong choice, you're going to suck. You know, if you're distracted by that phone while you're dumping, you're going to suck. If you're distracted by that phone, when you're running 50 miles an hour down a dirt road, lost, not knowing where you're going, scrolling videos, you're going to suck, you know, and ultimately it costs us, you know, and God forbid, I hope it doesn't ever cost you physically that you're injured in this job or anything like that.

And it's, it's just stressful, man. There's, there's no way to fix it. You know, you wake up carrying it, you go to bed, carrying it, carry it all day long. You know, that phone rings and I hear someone inside the office, inside the dispatcher, you go, is everybody okay? Is everything? And you're like, oh my God, oh my God, what happened? You know, your heart automatically sinks, your, your face gets flushed, your stomach tightens up and you're like, what happened? What's going on?

You know, were we in an accident? Whose fault is it? Is everybody okay? Hey, what's the scenario? And then you got to rush out there and you're just like, oh my God, here we are. And it's stressful, man. This is a stressful job. This is a stressful business because we're dependent on other people's choices. And that's where it gets scary. We are worried constantly about the choices you're making. So when we go to a driver and say, hey, did you clean off your gate?

Because they came in with something as simple as not sweeping off their gate and there's a bunch of debris on it. They think that's nothing, but they didn't pay for the broken windshield from the debris coming off. They didn't deal with the phone call, right? They didn't deal with the phone call from the truck running the red light, or they didn't have to deal with any of that. They just go home. Well, we back clean up all day long. That's what we do.

So when I say we're just waiting for the shoe to drop, it could be one day where we could have four or five shoes fall that day, and it's just a long, painful day.

So but we try and come here with an optimistic attitude and try and promote safety get people to understand why safety is so important and why we push it so much and so they have a successful day because if they're safe they're going to have a successful day and they're going to help build these skills that point out other unsafe drivers whether it's four-wheelers other truckers anything like that, you'll pick up that skill immediately.

I mean, you, there, there probably isn't one driver here that can't look in their mirror right now and go, Oh, Oh, watch this guy. He's going to pass me. He's going to do this. He's going to do that. And, and you're already narrating a story. You're, you're almost broadcasting what that guy's going to do like a commentator in the races, right?

Because you've read his story just by his few moves coming up on you and you know what he's going to do so be a professional be aware of that but man take that first step and pay attention you have to be focused on your craft not your phone you know i i've told this a dozen times and i urge everyone and i know we send all this crap out on connect and xbe and this and that and the other you don't need it while you're moving put that damn phone in your lunchbox.

When you stop and dump or you stop at the pit, pull it out, you look at it, put it back in the lunchbox. Take the temptation away. We've heard, I don't know how many drivers say, I need the mapping. I need the mapping. I'm not buying into it. We go to the same 11 places all day long, right? I mean, when I grew up driving, I didn't have a phone. I don't know how I got somewhere. Jesus, we had to look at the back of a phone book, find a map, write down directions on a sheet of paper, right?

You had to take Quebec to Yosemite, Yosemite to First Avenue, First Avenue over to Havana and Havana to whatever. Those were your directions. I had a system of how I would write my directions. You know what I mean? And I would just draw a light, then a left light. It was cool. I don't know how to get anywhere anymore. Yeah. This is one of the other big suggestions I have with that phone.

If you have a family member or members and all they do is text you and they expect you to text back, you need to take the time, pick up the phone, and you need to call that family member, loved one, friend, whatever it is, and say, you know, I'm a professional driver. I can talk to you while I'm on the phone driving behind the wheel. I don't have time to text you. Some people shouldn't do that. I agree. We run into, I don't know how many people that are just on the phone all the time.

I had a conversation with the driver the other day in the office. The whole time he was talking to Super Dave and I, we found out when he was done, he was on the phone with someone. He had his headset on. And I'm like, how are you carrying on two conversations right now? That's the, it's, it's ludicrous to me. And the thing was that all the conversation shake, none of them could be meaningful. Yeah. Cause you can't, I can't concentrate like that. Right. Yeah.

It's a distraction. Yeah. It is plain out a distraction. The multitasking doesn't work for me. When we see backing accidents and the Japanese talking on the headset while you're having a backing accident, to me, you're distracted. Oh, totally. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If I'm doing something like that, I have to quit talking. Yeah.

Right. yeah give me a minute run down the windows turn the music down yeah yeah yeah yeah it's gonna help me back up yep my daughter sent me a funny meme the other day back in the day you used to you know listen to your radio loud or do whatever and now you have to turn your radio down to see better yeah that's what happens when you get old i i do want to throw that just i know we've got some other questions in there jam but i was talking to rico yesterday because we were talking about you

know missing some questions in the podcast or that we're sending out about the podcast and my question was when you put the truck in reverse when you're listening to the podcast does it stop the podcast and rico says no you have to pause it and that's what he does when he gets out to clean off his tailgate or get a ticket or whatever he just pauses the podcast when he goes to dump at the plant or, you know, knows he needs to back in somewhere instead of it muting and letting it keep

play and just missing five minutes, he just pauses it. So I thought that was a little tip, a good tip. So you don't miss something, right? Absolutely. Yeah.

You guys want to talk about some Sam's coaching, the safety bonus and stuff like that? Yeah. Okay. First thing I want to say is you're going to have to want this more than we want it for you. There's some people as always that are super engaged, stopping by. And I'm just speaking on my team, right? Or, or I could witness what happens with JR's team because we sit next to each other, but yeah. What's that team name? What's your team name? Awesome sauce. Yeah. I like it. Yeah.

So yeah, people will stop by, call me, check on it. What can I do? And then there's people you don't hear from them. You know, they're just doing their thing. And you know, you look at all the coaching events and you look at the score, you know, you see we haven't taken in the knowledge challenge, they're just disengaged, right? You're going to have to want this more than we want it for you. Otherwise, you're not going to perform well, you know? Agree.

But in regards to the results, so this week we had 102 people out of 154. Complete the test. The challenge. 93 out of 118 drivers completed it. There was still a lot of people that never even started it. I did talk to one driver today who's having phone issues and some other stuff going on. We want to know why. I look at that list of people that don't even start it and I see a common trend. And then there was like the thoughts I'm sticking out, somebody who's super engaged that's not doing it.

I knew something was wrong, you know, but talk to your teammates, get them involved. JR was so kind. He actually put together some stats to show how we are doing as a company. Since we started this safety bonus criteria, I bet we're doing worse. We are becoming a worse fleet by the minute. Right. And you know, that's not true, right? Yeah. I mean, that's, that's, what's so great about this.

So we're comparing December 17th to January 17th, the 30 days before we started the program, to January 18th to today. So not a full 30 days, but from January to today. Great snapshot. From the day that we started doing this, right? So our overall fleet safety score was 89, and now it's 93. Wow. Overall as a fleet. Team Living on a Budget, that's JR's group, Weekend Group A They were in 92, now they're in 94.

Team Red, White, and Rigged, Weekend Group B or Erica's group They were in 91, now they're in 93. Team Austin Suss. I'm biased, so I won't really say what I think about this team as far as how great they are. Went from a 91 to a 94. Wow. The other two were just two bumps. Yours was three. Three bumps. Yeah. Team I Crusaders, Casey's team, was a 91, and now they're a 93. Across the board? That's awesome. Isn't that amazing? Right?

Yeah. I don't know the naysayers it doesn't exist we all know right now all those drivers are so much better right kicking ass and as a company we're kicking ass it is a win-win when somebody's presented with a challenge they want to go out and and we set that challenge and sometimes and do well right sometimes you gotta throw a couple shots exactly that's right exactly so the sharks go make me swim I love that you know yeah that's one of my favorite stories so great rise to

the challenge so i got some more good news so speed wait it gets better but wait there's more so fleet wide speeding before was at 1647 hours and 20 minutes and we had 143 following distance events as of today we were at 877 hours and 30 minutes with only 86 following distance events now it hasn't been a full month yet but it is going right yeah that's not truly apples to apples because of the date range yeah i agree let's talk driver efficiency.

So before, the overall fleet efficiency score was an 86, and now it's a 90 and steadily climbing. That's huge. That's the other thing about the fleet safety score that was trending up as well. Team Living on a Budget was an 85. They're now a 91. Wow. Team Red, White, and Rigged was an 86.

They're now a 91. team awesome sauce was at 84 now they're in 91 and team at crusaders was at 88 and now they're in 90 so we are improving in all areas nice yeah that is just that is so fantastic you guys what that means for all of us is you know the the drivers there's that there's that bonus you know that making that money and for a for a trucking company for jfw that's less brake wear more better fuel safer trucks i mean it's a it's a magnitude it's just

going to keep multiplying and it's fantastic so before i don't know if this is safety or efficiency it's any efficiency part but I feel like it might be, I don't know. But for 91 drivers, we're under a 90. And as of today, 55 drivers are under a 90. This, well, I'm not sure. And then 46 drivers were over a 90, 15, which were over 95. And as of today, 76 drivers are over 90, of which 54 are over a score of 95. Yeah, that's awesome. Can't be done. See what you can do when you put your mind to it,

right? When you throw a couple of sharks in the tank. We had a short conversation earlier about if I should read the scores of all the people that got 100 on their first try. I'll just say there was 49 people. Brother Dave brought up, he'd rather hear about the people that had 100 on his safety score. So this has gone from January 18th to February 4th.

I'll read you the names who have 100 on his safety score. john jordan dwayne potter frank mccoy fabio di gitano mike cisneros nap isignano mike portz jesse radabaugh not here anymore rob white hang on hang on that's it you know a little just that's a hundred yeah a little tidbit out there i gotta throw a shout out to mike portz because he's a trainer. He's got his trainees running that truck. Yeah, but according to the QR code now, that's- Oh, right, right, right.

Gosh, I forget. Yeah, we- That part's pretty cool. We eliminated that. Yeah. Yeah, we took it. We put it all on whoever's driving that truck. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, everybody. Yeah. Thank you. Those are amazing stats. You guys should be proud of yourselves because there's very few companies. I mean, as far I don't know any, and I'm just taking my, my knowledge of other companies that nobody's doing this.

So thank you guys. You should be very proud of yourselves, you know, and whether you go leave this job and you go someplace and you go, ah, my last company made me do this. I hope you can look at it and go, we did this at our last company. This is my score. I, you can take that wherever you go and be proud of that.

Well, I can picture that conversation when you go to the next company and go, I hope you don't have some dumb ass safety system like we used to have over there all right right and how does that make you look yeah right well yeah what yeah how does that make you look because oh you had a fantastic safety system yeah they wanted they wanted us to meet this safety criteria over there can you believe that yeah yeah so i don't kill somebody

yeah yeah i love it i want to give a shout out to uh tracy joanne and ann they're the three people outside of transportation that took and completed the test. Wow, fantastic. Very cool. Yeah. So did you say Linda, Joanne, and Tracy? Tracy, Joanne, and- Oh, Anne, Anne. Okay. Yep. Tracy is representing Team Dispatch. Gotcha. Gotcha. Nice. So a little competition there behind the scenes? He's the only one competing. But he's representing. Oswaldo. Oswaldo.

I hear a challenge. Yeah. My computer told me Oswaldo started, like his challenge was in progress, but not completed. Hey, I guess I want to harp on that too, Jammin. You said it about this since we're talking so much about the samsara stuff and taking this quiz and stuff. If you're having a phone problem, you can use my phone. You know what I mean? We'll go over it. We can get through this. The goal is to do it together and be better. Again, I want to say that. We can do this.

We're here to help you succeed. Yeah. Every step of the way, we want to help you succeed. But we have to challenge you to succeed. Yeah. I mean, how do you succeed if there's not a challenge? Right. Right. That was part of the speech at the rollout, right? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Humans flourish in a challenging situation. Yep. Right? Yep. Otherwise, we're pretty mediocre people.

And it's like Super Dave said, you know, two or three podcasts or ago or through this is, you know, what it's like to chain up and get through a snowstorm.

Dave when you make it through that snowstorm how good you feel that you accomplished that at the end of the day you know it's like i'm a badass right right this is good shit yeah that's the challenge you know or make that difficult dump or you know i mean i'd you know old school story i know we had animal we called him animal and he used to do all the rock doctor deliveries which was we deliver rock to these big old usually big old homes because they were doing some kind of decorative design

at these homes and man he was he would he never tipped a trailer over i i couldn't condone half the places he dumped but he got it done and he got it he was good he was good right and i i don't remember the one day he broke down or something and i had to jump in his truck and finish delivering the load and i showed up on the job site and i seen where his pile was at and i'm Like, how the hell is he dumping there?

I mean, I could, I was like, what was he like unloading his truck by hand, you know? And one of the guys was on the job there and I'm saying, Hey, how did, how did the last driver get in here? How was he done? And he goes, Oh, he just pulled down in here, but he would stack rock up and then back up on top of it and dump his load. So his trailer was level. And I'm like, yeah, that makes total sense.

So I'm out there stacking rock up, you know, and, and backing up on it and putting them where the customer wanted it and just taking care of business, you know, shout out to you, animal, all these, all these years and it can be done and it can be done safely, you know, amazing, amazing stuff. So I'm just, I'm just proud of everybody for the scores we've achieved. Absolutely. Win, win, win. Yes, win, win. And, and really, this is a good time for you to.

Talk to your neighbor. We've talked about that. Whoever you park next to it, give them a little prod. Go, hey, what's your score? How are you doing on it? Blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, and challenge them to engage them a little bit because we still have quite a few not engaged. Yeah. The scores are going to keep coming up. I know I got a few people in my group that are working really hard, and there's room for some big improvements,

which will really bring everybody. I'm sure all the groups are kind of the same.

So, JR and Chris Bean brought this to my attention, and this has to do with speed cameras are coming to Colorado highways this spring. CDOT plans to place the cameras in construction zones first. And then just reading through this article, I mean, starting this spring, if you speed through the highway constructions over Colorado, you could get a ticket without ever being pulled over.

Photo speed cameras are coming to the state highways as part of the Colorado Department of Transportation $5 million effort to reduce crashes. Speeding is okay until you hurt somebody. It's not a victim of crime, said Trooper Sherry Mendez. She said speeding is the leading cause of crashes in Colorado. In 2024, CSP investigated 573 speed-related crashes with injuries or fatalities.

After studying radar cameras in other states like Connecticut, Maryland, Colorado officials hope they can improve safety on the highways. They say they're going to roll it out. The exact locations haven't been disclosed, but Floyd Hill was discussed as a possible starting point. Ah, okay. All that construction through there, right? Yeah, I like what this trooper said here, because this has to do with our Safety Has No Blind Spot campaign.

When we talk about drive like your family's in the car next to you, you don't know who's in that next car. You don't know if it's a family of six in a minivan, a dad and his wife, and they have five children. You don't know who's in that next car, Rivera acknowledged.

Kyle, what a road will require drivers to be notified 300 feet before the camera so good yeah awesome stuff there you go just shouldn't it it really jam shouldn't even be a concern to have to announce that because we shouldn't be speeding in a construction zone right you know same thing as of trying to do these this safety score and and get everybody to do this and make it a challenge is obviously if it was easy to tell everybody slow down on a construction zone,

wouldn't need the cameras, wouldn't need to do that. But, but it, it can't happen. Yeah. I mean. It's unrealistic. People's choices are pretty mind boggling. You know, we have that, I don't think we shared it anywhere, but we have a video of one of our trucks going through Glenwood Canyon and. I'm going to say everyone knows the speed's 45. It could be 50. It's been a long time since I've been through there. But my point is everybody knows it's a reduced speed for trucks.

And it's everywhere, written everywhere. Through the Glenwood Canyon, right? So whether it's 45, 50, I'm sure someone will correct me, whatever it needs to be. And trucks need to stay in the right lane. And we have a truck going through Glenwood Canyon and he's in the right lane. And you can see this display right on our recording of it.

He's doing like 44 miles an hour 45 miles an hour 46 miles an hour he's right at that speed limit and here comes a fedex wiggle wagon i don't know whether it was doubles or triples but passes him like kind of posts him you know what i mean like he was doing well over 50 oh yeah in the fast lane gets over in front of our truck damn near takes the hood off of our truck changing lanes to get back over in front of us almost as though

to say i'm not supposed to be out here in the left lane and i know i need to get back over in the right lane before i get caught out here.

And then he's such a poor driver he comes clear onto the shoulder and i thought okay he's upset at us for some reason and i thought he's just going to drive on the shoulder for a while to kind of dust us or throw up debris or whatnot jesus you guys he was he was literally almost dragging the concrete guardrail around that curve it wasn't to get even with this that's just how poor a driver he was mass car drivers don't get that close to the wall right right exactly jam and so you

know when you when we talk about people's choices and their decisions and why you've passed all these signs you've been told not to be in that lane you've been told not to go over the speed limit you've you've been told all the but you do it anyway where where is that what what was that did that guy wake up that day and said today i am gonna suck you know what i mean he definitely didn't get up and say today i'm going to do my best yeah at some point the switch got

turned right at some point yeah and i get i just don't understand that mentality just shrug it off and geez you're behind another truck going the same speed so do it you know absolutely speaking of truck zones and stuff like that jr brought up please mention speeding down the truck speed zones. Got two alerts from yesterday of guys speeding down Eisenhower West. Speed limit's 35 and they were hitting 45 and 50. So...

What are you thinking what are you thinking are you not thinking are you distract i i mean i've talked to drivers and they're like i just my head wasn't focused blah blah blah blah you know and i i mean i remember one conversation with one particular driver he was like that was my seventh load through there today and blah blah blah and i'm like oh my god your seventh load for today that should almost be a body reflex you don't need to think going through there you passed that six

by 12 flashing yellow sign that's blinking that says truckers don't be fooled steep grade ahead and you forgot about it yeah west of eisenhower that's dropping into silver thorn isn't it yes west yeah sorry i'm i changed locations just talking out loud oh no it had nothing to do with that i'm just trying yeah i'm not yeah yeah west of eisenhower yeah I dropped it into Silverthorne or it's a long Dylan. It's a long, steep hill. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, I don't know. I was going to say, it seems like it's like 13 minutes to get to the bottom of it. It seems like forever. Yeah. Yeah. The thing is that's loaded or empty. Yeah. Doesn't matter. No. Loaded or empty. Yeah. Right. So maybe that's some of the push. While I'm empty, I can come down through here faster. No, you can't. It doesn't say loaded trucks. Right. It says any trucks. Just because you could doesn't mean you should. Right. Yeah.

I guess that's where you're just like, what, what choice did you make today? Not the right one. Not the correct one. Not the one we all talk about. Not the one we preach. Not the one we teach. Not the one we beg for. Not the one we pray about.

It but we'll keep praying we'll keep teaching we'll keep preaching yeah preaching right we'll keep doing what we do because golly it according to our results it's working you just need everybody to do it that does feel good it does and we and we it's great by the time we care yeah it's great yeah i'm proud i'm proud of all the teams yeah you know i've talked to a few people on other teams and the people that are taking it serious

are doing well yeah they're gonna make some money And the people that, that you mentioned, there's, there's a group of people that are disengaged and, you know, we, because we know they're disengaged in other things here at JFW. So we know the people, but the thing about that is here's this whole group doing it correctly and better. We're trying. Trying. Wanting to improve. Wanting to improve. And you're, you're just disengaged.

You you don't recognize the the greatness of the of the other accomplishments i mean if if i'm going to be completely honest it bothers me oh yeah i don't i try not to get like yeah like i'll use the word emotional about it or you know but i look angry yeah it's just it's weird because i look i mean i'll just tell you like i look at those names and it's like yep he doesn't give a shit i knew that up this guy i i know he doesn't give a shit he doesn't yep she's not listening i knew she wouldn't

listen she's too cool you know i mean like i just know you know and it's just like.

You're not listening to the podcast you're not doing a challenge they're not the people that are calling me about their safety scores the driver efficiency score they're just completely disengaged you know and it's like does that make them a bad person no it doesn't make them a bad person it doesn't make them an engaged teammate though and that's what this is all about is engagement yeah you happen to know that person when you throw the shark in the tank they get eaten yeah so to me

it's like oh wow wow so like okay this guy's in my group right and i gotta i gotta stay faithful even when they're not right so like yeah i gotta be i gotta be a good leader and eventually call this person oh yeah you know and be like hey you know you have an 85 for a safety score, you're not doing anything with the podcast, you know, and help him. And honestly, like, I don't want to help him. Right. I want to help the people that want to be helped.

You know, the people that are stopping by my desk or calling or trying or, you know. You mentioned that story in...

Forever jam as long as i've known you you know that that you try to do some personal training and that was the frustration of that was that when they don't try you you got to help yourself oh yeah you know and you you can do all you can do but if they're not willing to try yeah i mean yeah i would bust my ass trying to get people in shape and they're going home and eating bonbons sitting on the couch it's like well you're not gonna get the results you can't

and you can't be mad about the results that you didn't get by the effort you didn't put in right exactly here though jam i mean you're trying to help somebody be in better shape which just gives them a better life but we're we're talking about possibility of killing somebody the success of you know our business our family members there's so much financial gain financial gain there's so much riding on this right you know right and and and and you just think your natural thing was to care.

Everybody yeah to some people this is still just a jlb you know it's just some people this is a career some people it may be a short-term career but it's more than a jlb you know they enjoy it they like being engaged they like what we give them they like the benefits they like our culture they they like what we do you know some people really recognize that this place is different from any place they've ever worked or will ever work out again you know i feel like jfw is a completely different

company, especially in the industry. Is it all roses and flowers and unicorns and rainbows? No. Do we make... I love work. I love working here. Do we make anybody happy every day? No. Are we all happy every single day? No, but we try. When you see these people that.

Don't give a shit it's you know it's like well why should why should i care if he gets a bonus he doesn't care you know we're not going to get you're going to get your five percent if you don't have an accident but you're leaving four percent on the table you know almost double right you know because of a lack of effort caring and whatever you're too cool yeah yeah sorry jim didn't mean Yeah.

So that person, I hate to say it. And you know, you may look at me as a bad leader for this, but that person's the last person that I'm going to help. You know, it just, I think that part is true. It's going to be interesting to watch the evolution of those positions. You know what I mean? And see, see, cause I just feel they'll fade away. You know what I mean? That's just my two cents. And we'll, we'll be bringing in people that are invigorated and challenged and seeking that revenue.

And wanting that money and adhering to the system of how it works and being appreciative of it, right? Rather than those that are just like, okay.

We know, I mean, we haven't been told that, but we also know we've lost a few people in the last couple of weeks too that quit, by I mean lost, found other jobs. And we know that that's because they didn't want to do this. Right. So there's no effort to be better. They're willing to take their, their, their habits and go someplace else and endanger, you know, themselves and other people. Yeah, sometimes I worry, you know, the 9%, right?

So I believe some people are money motivated and they're not going to leave money on the table. And I believe other people just like being part of something bigger. Super Dave, you asked this question in interviews. Do you like to be part of something bigger than yourself?

And I think about that a lot in my own personal life, like, you know, whether it's here or church or whatever the case may be, like you know if you're the biggest thing in your world and you want to be part of anything bigger yeah samsara safety scores and bonuses they just don't mean anything the thing is though too, that's troubling to talk but people choose their groups you know humans are a social creature they cannot the tribes yeah exactly

jan their tribes and so they choose their tribe and you know we choose this one and feel pretty dang strongly this is a good drive and other people not so much you know and that's when we say go ahead and and find another try down the road right so and we know people that want to be in our our tribe and our group and work hard to make jfw a better place to be yeah there's a blue tribe down the road they love our training program some of the best drivers came from us.

You do love our training programs, don't you? Some of their best drivers were fired from here? Is that what you said? Well, they came from us. They were fired from us. Yeah, they're still their best, you know, they've had the best training out of all their employees. Right? Yeah. Yeah. All right, let's talk about what's next, but it's more like what's now. And what's now is the tippers, okay? Not only the tippers, but all the Michael Bullies.

We did bring that up last week, but we are in full effect on the tippers, aren't we? We're tipping. Oh, boy. What is a tipper, 20%? Depends what kind of service they got. Right. So, anyway, the tippers, you know, it's definitely a different way to go green. And you pull up to a buoy and you got to pull your trailer up next to this tipper, and the truck has different hydraulic lines and fittings and connections, and you hook it up and then this tipper goes up in the air above your trailer

and then tips and loads your brain. Yeah, you do. It's like a gold bucket. What's a tipper? What's a tipper? What is a tipper? And then you watch it and you go, wow, that's a tipper. Oh. The light bulb goes off. You know, when they invented that thing, they were using it. They had a name again, and it tipped, and they were like, what should you call it? Tipper. Well, you remember when you were Holland for Boral, before Boral became Brannan,

and Boral was based in Australia, all the end dumps were called tippers. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, lorrimen. When they would tip over, or when they were dumping. Dump, they call them tippers. Yeah, the end dumps are tippers and the, and the concrete trucks are lorrimand.

Lorrimand. Lorrimand. Gotcha. Cool in australia yeah so yeah there was uh you know there was a little bit you know some some normal speed bumps and things didn't go smoothly at first but we got her done i mean yeah that's the that's something i i mean i've always been proud of and and it and i think it's the core of of jfw is the the challenges we face you know in our cream and and overcome and overcome and i mean And I know you and, you and J.R.

Dealt with it last weekend, you know, Scooby and we got Mike, you know, he's got enough in his, in his drawer of stuff to have to be fixed. And we throw this at him and, and he's on top of it. Dave went out yesterday and, you know, helped out. And I just love when we overcome something and, and boom, we're now we're, it seems like we're emptying every microbrewery in the state at this point.

And I know that's not true, but the list that they'll call, yeah, the list that Linda threw out there yesterday. And, you know, I'm like, where's that at? What's this at? What's that name? And, you know, it's just, it feels good. It's warm. It's like hauling that loaves in the snow.

We knocked it out of the park. Also, shout out to Andrew. I don't know if we brought him up. Yes, I did not. He was working last Saturday, but he came over and he had some good ideas for the tipper and man, his attitude. I mean, Andrew's the type of person that you get around the guy and his energy is just so good. Right. You know, if you're feeling a little bit down, get around Andrew and he'll have you smiling in no time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Yeah.

Good reminder on that, Jim. Thank you. And I think we lost track of that because he wasn't on our connect conversation.

You know what i mean yeah a future shout out to jason he's gonna be the other tipper truck okay yeah yeah yeah andrick he's already he's already making relationships with the breweries and he knows the people by their names and you know i yeah i guess you guys wouldn't know this but he came you know talking well he was up front that one day you know when you had your interview super dave and he was just bragging about no i was just agreeing yeah yeah so he was just he was

just so excited to be on these microbrewery runs because of the relationships that he's been building and you know it's not like going across and just load and leave like you get to know the people and they're nice to you and you know he's got the personality for that but it's like a relationship's being formed yeah and they give you a 12 pack of beer and they give you yeah you know apparently a 15 pack and I don't know how the math works on that, it's, it's left math.

But anyway, he was super excited about doing something different and, you know, great. Yeah. I know we, where he went yesterday, you know, you have to back across a couple of lanes and block it off. And we were trying to, and we, we, we wanted to do the brewery early in the morning where there was less traffic and we were trying to get him down there and get him a spotter. And Oswaldo ended up calling him and he's like, well, I'm in,

I got it, you know? So, again, got it handled safely and stuff. And then Jason that went back, Danny. Shout out to, yeah. He's going to do the other tipper as soon as we can get him back off of nights. Yeah, so shout out to Jason for being flexible. Jason. Jason's been a night course guy. He started out from days. He went to Rocktub for a little bit. And then he found a nice home for himself working nights. And he did that for years and years and years.

And he did an amazing job. jason amazing thank you jason doesn't need a lot from us you know silent warrior until he starts talking then he's not very silent you'll be here for a little bit but just very low maintenance very capable well things change in his house with his kids going to school and stuff and he's gotten older he's able to go to days now it just works better for his family and we finally got him on days and then we had to

you know terminate the other night driver so jason you know willingly you know but oh yeah you know just to help out and and help jfw was like yeah i'll do it because he could have said no exactly you know we could have been like hey jason we got a problem at. Listen, you know, I've done nights for four years and it just doesn't work for my family and I'm not going to do it. Sorry. And we would have had to be understanding. Absolutely. But thankfully, he was a team player. Yes, absolutely.

And then just to throw that out there, I know Dave's asked and tried to check around and, you know, we're trying to get everybody to listen to the podcast. So, you know, possibility that we miss somebody. If you're interested in learning Coors or running Coors nights, there's a position open. And we'd much rather have somebody here that's already trained take that position open. And it's just two people that do that.

And, you know, I know the, because it's at night and stuff like that and working the schedule, it's, it's, I'm going to save more money than, than what the day shift is. But that's just higher pay because it's, it's at night, you know? So if you're interested in that, it is a, it's just a different position and absolutely it's, it's nights. But if you're interested, ask dispatch, holler out to one of the safety guys. Yeah, there's pros and cons. Number one, you got to be a night person.

That job wouldn't be for me because at eight o'clock I need to be in bed. There's people like Jason or Neil, the new guy, he's training for nights. Right away in his interview, he's like, is there any night jobs? Because I would do that. You know what I mean? And some people, there's less traffic, you know, there's less management, there's less, you know, there's a lot of less, but you got to be able to solve problems. You know, there's less support, right? Absolutely.

It's a good gig. Yeah, I would like that because I've always liked the like two, three o'clock and then end of the day. That's my favorite time. Like second shift. Yeah, I know it doesn't work that way, but that would be always, that would be my favorite time. I've always loved trucking at that time. Open up your mornings. Yeah, cool. I know that was more like right now. Tours. Super Bowl is this weekend, right? It is. Really? Who's in?

Well, that's when I was going to throw this out. I know it's going to be tough, but all you Kansas City fans, you're going to lose. Is it Kansas and the Broncos? No, it's Kansas City and the Eagles. Yeah, Eagles. Got it. Yeah. So Kansas City, you fans, you're going to lose.

Huh they're they're going out man talking up bronco country knocking down the chiefs right that's nice you know it's we we've got a we've got a split positive split family going in my household holly wants to kansas city because if you she thinks if you're not you know cheering on the broncos you got to flip over to kansas city and she and taylor swift fan no no i mean yeah we've joked about that too that's all jackie cares about when we're watching a kansas city game, is Taylor Swift there?

Guess what? She'll be there this Sunday. Right. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So you have everybody, whoever you're, you know, cheering for, have a good Super Bowl and be careful with the drinking and driving and all that kind of stuff. So. Yeah. I have a kind of what's happened but talked about what's next. Okay. Do you guys know what Sunday was? Last Sunday? This last Sunday? Yeah. Yeah, there was an event that happens every year on that Sunday.

What was it? I do know, Dave, and I can't tell you. Man, Dave must have been sick, because I can't believe he's not spitting it out. Does that have to do with astronomy? It's Groundhog Day. Oh, yeah. That's what it was, too, because he's seen his shadow. Yeah. Bucks of Tawny Phil. We're going to have six more weeks of winter. Yep. According to a furry animal we pull out of the ground. Right. Crazy. Scientifically. We made a movie about putting men on the moon, but, you know.

We made a movie about Groundhog Day. right yeah that was a better movie right it was yeah all right questions from the audience so connect team has been i will call it successful about people to ask questions from the audience it was like pulling teeth for three years and now it's like oh we got connect people got questions i like that yeah i did feel throughout we can't ask all the questions so i had to kind of pick and choose a little bit of what we're going to ask today not to censor you the

audience but to ask some more pertinent questions.

I take this first one, Brother Dave. Sorry, Charlie. Big Country asks, can we have the brake lights program to come on when the jakes are being used? I've noticed that I've been taking a lot of those close calls trying to do progressive downshifting, and the vehicles behind me swerving to miss me. I know if I get hit from behind 99.9% of the time, it's not my fault.

However, you're going to have that one car that has a camera that hits us due to them saying no brake lights, and then it opens up a whole can of poop. Just saying what I'm thinking. Thanks again. Oh, that's a really good question, big country. And years ago, and I mean, in the last six years, we had trucks programmed that had the Jake brakes to come on, the lights to come on when you're Jake braking.

As a matter of fact, one time I was coming down to Calendon out of Fry doing an amazing job, you know, 40 miles an hour the whole way down, not using my brakes, just Jake braking the whole way. And I get down to that light at the bottom on 58th and 93, where you go to six and all that. And this box man pulls up next to me and he looks at my truck and he's giving me the thumbs down like, boo.

So I roll my window down. I'm like, what's going on? He's like, you need to learn how to drive that truck. I'm like, man, I thought I was doing a pretty good job. What's the matter? He's like, you rode your brakes the whole way down that canyon. I'm like, actually, I rode my Jake brakes all the way down the canyon. Our lights are programmed to come on when we're Jake braking. Yeah. And he was like, oh, well. So, you know, under my breath, I was like, keep driving that box fan, buddy.

That little box truck, that little six wheeler. Stick to what you know. Old school, instead of a commercial driver's license, yours had an A and he only had a B. I don't even think he needed a B. He was definitely the B team, though. Anyway, I had a good laugh about that. But that does create a problem when people think we are breaking when we're not.

And when I say people, I mean Colorado State Patrol. one of our sister companies we'll call it had a few trucks pulled over for staying on their brakes too long coming down the hills and the state troopers thought that they were burning their brakes so we took it out of the program and the programming for the trucks and i don't believe there's going to be any plans on turning that back on no just it just doesn't make sense in the big scheme of things and i i know we probably have had but we.

Just don't i know that it's been a question before we don't have people run into the root back of us for that reason yeah you know i mean not for that reason not for that reason we've not had accidents like that yeah i mean we had that one this summer where the guy didn't have a driver's license and no insurance and was speeding we've had the one the girl was on the cell phone you know we've had the one you know trying to pass us and didn't make it and hit the back of us but yeah big country we

we don't have people that you know get ticketed for running in the back of us because we were progressive shifting we just we don't have that happen buddy and if it's a if it's a yeah it's a great question if it's a concern drawn your four ways yeah there you go as you're slowing down or whatever or or you know hopefully your turn signals on or you know if you're turning or whatever the situation may be no so yep all right question number

two oh did i not write down whose question this was actually somebody want to take the next question so i could give credit the 32 degrees. I'm looking up who asked that. Go ahead, Jim. Yeah, you just didn't. It is on the Connect, Jim. Yeah, I'm going to look on Connect if you want to take it. Yeah. Do the new trucks have the feature where the truck's staying idling at 32 degrees and below? Well, I'm going to kind of twist that around a little bit and say,

you tell me. Yeah. Yeah, that's the question. You get you. Sorry, dude. I interrupted you. I mean, I just, we read through a lot of the questions and we can't tell you. You need to tell us you're the captain of your ship, right? I think it should be more of a question is, hey, my truck shuts off. Can we have that turned on? Yeah. And I understand. You know what I mean? We're kind of flipping the script a little bit. John Jordan. It had more to do with the temperature of the truck,

the coolant and oil temperature. It's supposed to. Outside temperature. It does register ambient temperature, Dave, so it is doing that. So this was from John Jordan. Sure. Go question, John. Yeah. They're supposed to, right? And I think 99% sure Chris Beam got with me on it. We've tested it and it doesn't. They're not programmed correctly. Yeah. But also they're not programmed correctly with the speed because they were all supposed to be programmed where the foot speed doesn't go over 70.

I haven't seen that on the questions from the audience. I know it. Yeah. The foot speed and apparently the crews both go 72 miles an hour. No one's asking that question. So anyway, maybe, maybe some programming got screwed up somehow. And just like when we had those five, maybe that they were all going 75. Nobody said a word. Right, right, right. Yeah. Maybe that 32 degrees got changed with 72 miles an hour or something. Maybe it, maybe that's where the 72 and the 32 got changed. I'm not sure.

So anyway, if John, if that's something you would like and your truck is not doing that. and I do know Chris Beam has mentioned that. We just, we're just behind. Yeah, we got to, I mean, I can't lie to you. We got to fix it. Yeah. We need, we could use another badass mechanic that could just help us severely. I mean, we could, we could book that person 15 hours a day, seven days a week, just plugging into trucks and looking at things and helping out.

And I mean, I can't lie to you. We just, we could, we could desperately use a soul that could just help in that department. You know what I mean? I'm the old guy. Do you? Yeah. We're interested. Okay. That's awesome. Kyle? Too funny. Yeah. We, yeah. All of that. When you're not busy doing safety stuff. Yeah. Yeah. You know, like in Mike's defense, we had the, not Coors, but Wilbur Ellis call. Then we just got done talking about all the sippers and the micro brews.

You know mike's got an engine and you know him mike and his team's got an engine to put in one of the super dumps we just got through all the new trucks outfitting them you know and then we go hey mike they want us to do these tippers we told we gave them a 30-day notice and mike's like okay they want to start monday yeah they want to start monday that's like mike's like that's like seven days where's my 30 days yeah and he gets us up and going well that that puts like all the programming back.

You know, that's, that's bottom of the list. And so, yeah, sorry, you guys, but you know, like we said, if we're having that situation, you have questions, if it's not discovered that it doesn't do that and then go, Hey, my truck doesn't do this. Are they supposed to? And if they are supposed to, mine's not, you know, that kind of stuff, help, help us out on that, that, that would be, that would be great. You know, we look, we learn together. Right. Damien Roybal, two questions.

Question A, can we start using this platform for communication to the shop? Maybe make a shop section and communicate through there, pictures, write-ups, et cetera? That's a good question, and everything's possible. I mean, we'd have to give up. Yeah. Yeah. So, sorry, Gemma. I, cause I read that one and I, and you know, we, we just have to make sure we're on the same page if that switch does happen so that we're all aware of what's going on.

So we don't have this separate, you know, communication going with, with the drivers that, you know, the safety team can help out or me and Dave can help out or Mike can help out. And, and it's really difficult to change some of those avenues so that we're all aware of it. Yeah. Also, Samsara might be a better place. If we're going to move things electronically. Samsara could be a better place for that.

And I know JR's looked into some things with the pre-trip inspections and write-ups and stuff. We just got to get the shop to get on board with it, which, yeah. And along with that, we are talking to McLeod, another dispatch system that's a full system. They have a pretty robust maintenance program to go along with that. That could be helpful, but they tie into Samsara. That's one of their, pardon me. So it seems eventually things are going to go that way.

I mean, I think most trucking companies at this point do all that electronically. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So yeah, like you said, great question. You know, again, pictures are worth a thousand words. Part of that question was pictures. You know, we love to have pictures and, and go through the stuff. So yeah.

Question B from Damien, is it normal for the red frames to stop jaking and put itself in neutral or close between 20 to 30 miles an hour to where you have to tap the brake to get it back into gear or manually shift into a gear while coming to a red light, etc. We've not programmed anything that way. Jeff, if it's doing that, it's something's wrong, I guess, or, or, or programming's wrong, or I guess I have more questions to it. Does it only do that when you're empty? Are you in three stages?

You know what I mean? Is there, like you said, Jim, I'm not, can you put it in, in manual mode and work through the gears? Cause I, those trucks just downshift so aggressively to me. I'm dropping the Jake out of it or I'm in manual mode downshifting slowly. Otherwise, it's just so aggressive. I can't answer that. I do know when you're going so slow, and I guess it's right around 20 miles an hour, the Jakes don't come on anymore.

They're just, they're done because you're just 10 feet away from stopping. So I don't think it throws you into neutral, but I'm not 100% sure. And, and, and obviously Damien's driving the truck or the, the red frame truck, like you're saying, I know when the Jake kicks out, when you, when it's so aggressive or it's gotten you so low, it seems like the truck's in neutral. And, and the, the, you know, the times I've driven them, I don't look whether the shifter says neutral.

I just feel it's freewheeling cause it's, it's done. You know, it's just about at the stop. Yeah. The computer's done what it can do. Yeah. So I guess, yeah, help us out, Damien, and, you know, go through that and see if that's really what it's doing because, no, I don't think that's normal.

Agreed. All right. Safety topic of the week. Drop 10 and cover. All right. Drop 10 and cover is a phrase that I first heard of from Greg Wise. You guys may have heard of it before that. But what that means is when you're coming to an intersection, like on Highway 85, any of those intersections. Dropping 10 miles an hour and covering your brake. There was a really bad accident on Highway 85 and CR8 yesterday. It's not truly an intersection with a light. Maybe there should be a light.

But, man, dropping 10 and covering really could save your butt. So there was a car headed, I believe, northbound straight in the left lane.

There was two big trucks making a left-hand turn. and then there was a car coming from the other direction making a left into the northbound side of traffic and there was a t-bone accident at a high rate of speed people were injured interestingly enough tracy somehow knew somebody that knows the person in the pickup truck and i got a text from mark dylan he knows people that were in the car oh wow yeah so pretty close to home and both vehicles. And yeah.

So the person in the car didn't want to thank us. They're going to shoot us an email, but that was Omar Reyes. Shout out to Omar Reyes for springing into action, trying to help the people in both vehicles. And, you know, he didn't hesitate. Brother Dave will say that he has a pretty big amygdala because that flight or fight or your emergency response comes from that portion of your brain. And, you know, it looked like he didn't hesitate at all. So, you know, appreciate, appreciate that.

That's, that's not something that everybody could do. So thank you. Agreed. Yep. Good stuff. Good job, O'War. Yep. Yeah. Highway 85 is just so flipping dangerous. You know, it's one of my least favorite roads to drive on in Colorado. Speed limits too fast and going through the lights there, there's just so many accidents, bombing rain, highway. Well, not highway seven has got the bridge, but 168th is what I meant. And all those intersections, I'm glad accidents happen to that.

So let's be super careful. And then tips and tricks. Ron Daffron actually came up with some tips this week. And he said it's important to know alternate routes to get to pits and plants in case of accidents and traffic. In traffic, not traffics, but traffic. So if there was a big accident and you got to use an alternate route, you should know how to get around to the plants and the pits different ways.

He said it was really cool to hear everyone on the radio helping each other out and giving advice on how to get there. That's cool. Yeah, I mean, I know it's your time and obviously your money and your gas and all that kind of stuff, you know. And Dave just mentioned it. You know, we go to, you know, 11 different locations pretty regularly.

It's almost the same dairies which adds you know another 20 or 30 stops and stuff like that but a lot of times back in my younger days you know when i first drive started driving and stuff i would go to the locations on the weekends in my personal car and go oh i can go here i can go here this is how i get here you know and it just helped me out through the week with the traffic and kind of think the that's the kind of the same way as what's your you know alternative route if you're stuck,

you know, and you, and you get trapped there, you know, cause I know a lot of the GPS. When you use your GPS, unless you shut it off, it allows you to be on C470, which we shouldn't be on, right. Cause the expense, but it also take you down a no trucking route.

And sometimes that's more dangerous. I know back East, there's that one film that, and that one, not film, but that one website about hitting the low bridges, you know, about how many trucks it sends you to the low bridge locations and and and back east you get caught in the low bridges if you're just listening to your gps and it's pretty dangerous and we don't have as many low bridges but we have the no trucking zones and all that kind of stuff and streets so yeah please please don't

rely on that gps use it as a general reminder and then once you've worked here for a while just take a sunday take a saturday take your family out go for a drive you know find out find out that there's a There's a bar and stop and have a beer after you went to Plant 11 or something or checked it out. There's so much you can do for yourself to help you out. I agree. So, what do you think? You want to hit us with that high road home?

Are you going to be able to get through it? I hope so. All right. I'll bail you out if you don't. Okay.

So, it's interesting in this podcast, we were talking about self-discipline. And that's about following up and doing the extra safety score research and trying to, you know, be a safer driver. And I went back and looked in my list of all of my High Road Haulings for the past 10 years. I don't have one on self-discipline. Do you believe that? No. So would you say that today's topic of the High Road Hauling is about self-discipline? Now I have one High Road Hauling that's about self-discipline.

Self-discipline. That's right. That is awesome. Self-discipline. Self-discipline.

I mean, it's key. it's it's a big it's as big a key as motivation you know so how can you cultivate self-discipline we all have that friend who by the time we're waking up has made their bed been outside for a run done last night's dishes and they'll spend the rest of their day completing their tasks and pursuing their interests and we call our friend self-disciplined why do some of us accomplish so much while the rest of us get stuck.

That's the secret to cultivating self-discipline. And how can self-discipline transform our personal and professional lives? What is self-discipline? The ability to do things that need to be done, the ability to train and control one's conduct, the ability to control one's feelings and desires. Self-discipline describes the ability to stay motivated and take forward action regardless of how you're feeling physically or emotionally.

With a high level of self-discipline, you're able to face tasks and obstacles head-on. You don't shy away from difficult situations and you're able to withstand the temptation of choosing the easier and more attractive options, knowing that comfortable decisions do not always lead to growth and success. Self-discipline allows you to choose and continue with your actions, thoughts, and behaviors how you want to live your best life.

It gives you the inner strength to overcome setbacks, failures, addictions, procrastinations, and boredom. People who've developed self-discipline understand that true self-care is about making choices to live a life that inspires them and that they don't need to escape from. Self-care is not all about salt baths and dark chocolate bars.

While they are nice, self-care is the dedication to everyday actions that improve our overall health and wellness What happens if we don't learn to cultivate self-discipline? You will feel conflicts within yourself, you will experience short-term satisfaction, but fall short of fulfilling your goals. Giving up on self-discipline can have many consequences, such as fear of failure, lack of purpose, lack of determination, motivation, and ambition.

To cultivate self-discipline, we need to believe that we are valuable. When we feel valuable, we will want to start managing our time, organizing our space, taking care of our health, contributing to society, spending more time with our loved ones, and transforming our finances. Self-discipline skills can be learned early in childhood. Take, for instance, parents trying to teach their child they need to do their homework before they can play outside.

The child learns to delay the gratification of play in order to perform their academic duties. At first, the child might protest their parent's rule, but if the discipline is practiced consistently and with structure, the child will eventually decide to complete their homework before playing outside. The child learns that play will always be there, but first they need to complete their homework to do well in school.

First, find your motivation. Write down what behaviors are not serving you well and embrace that feeling. It will feel great to recognize and sit with that what's causing you pain, but ignoring the problem will only make it worse. Write down clear goals that you want to set to become the improved version of yourself and write down what the goal looks like and what actions you will take to meet those goals. Get very clear on what the goal looks like to you in your personal life.

Once you've identified what areas you want to improve, develop an honest intention to stop delaying your personal growth. And that's just how you can get started. it. And I absolutely love this quote. I thought of Erica immediately, Jim. I don't know if I ever won a match from being in good shape, but I know I never lost a match from being out of shape. Spoken by Jim Currier, an American tennis player. That was a former world number one.

Very cool. Wonder how Dustin related her. Dustin Currier. Yeah. That was a good one too. Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was good. What was that? Was self-disciplined super? How to cultivate self-discipline within yourself. Yep. Good stuff thank you alright final thoughts everybody.

I always have a final question jam it's your favorite part of the podcast lets me we used to call them closing arguments closing arguments right lets me preach yeah yeah I just I didn't write it down word for word but ran across a quote from Bruce Lee And he just talked about, you know, the discipline and letting people, your emotions get in your way and, you know, anger you and you're not really, you know.

Disciplined until you can master that, you know, and he tried to master different disciplines. And then we have Super Dave's High Road Holland, you know, on self-discipline. And I think that's so, so important. And I was thinking the reason I kind of picked that and not being upset and being able to breeze through something and not get angry and think about your response is us trying to talk to our teammates about their driver scores.

And taking offense by the conversation instead of just wanting to be better, you know? And, you know, we've had so many incidents where we talk about phone usage and people are upset about the phone usage, you know? We talk to people we've had where you haven't earned your safety bonus and how upset people get. But, but it's not the rules were there. This is the facts. You know, we didn't take it from you. You took it from me. Yeah. You took it from me.

You didn't earn it, you know? And, and, you know, well, I've, you know, the, the, the same thing that we ran into lately quite a bit. Well, I've, I've worked here a long time, you know, and, and I've done it right all this time and I, and I, and I messed up. Well, that's, yeah, you're right. You, you got. We paid you for all those. All those safety bonuses that you earned.

Yes, we paid you for. So I'm just, I'm just going, and I just think of those as the, is the quick reaction instead of thinking, well, where am I at? You know, where, where is the discipline to, to be able to not react? You know, we, we've told the story lots of times we do it in the, in the safety, in the steering committee is that, you know, and I know we've brought it up is we call the Navajo stick, you know, of, of, you know, the Navajo people.

And I, hopefully this is really a true story for the, for the Navajo Indians is, you know, they, they thought it was offensive if you answered quickly instead of thinking about your thought and, and, you know, interrupting somebody, taking the time when we're, when we're in a meeting to try to, to try to answer somebody respectively and, and, you know, control your emotions. So I just, I, that would be my final thought is have, have matches your high road hall and David have some discipline.

You know, it's very, very hard. And I, I love to reach in the donut box and not have any self-discipline. It's the, that's the easy one. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I think that was good, Jim. My final thoughts are take care of yourself right now. There is a ton of sickness going around. Like jam started the podcast with three of the four of us in this room.

On the pot that was the hardest i wrote all i ever had to i tell you what i think we're out of for a sick now right right yeah no i mean man wash your hands clean the doorknobs spray some, lysol on everything around you you know try and let's try and drive this out you know i i almost laughed on on monday because number one there isn't one of us that can laugh without coughing right and i just kind of it was a quiet moment of like a few minutes in

the office and it was like this symphony of coughing and sneezing and just like we're just mutating in the office almost you know and yeah just take care of yourself everybody will get through this we're all getting better also have some patience because when you're sick we have no patience right we can't hear we're upset we have a short temper you know yada yada yada sleeping well yeah not sleeping, coughing, so yeah, a lot going on and I guess, you know, it's like everything else this

too shall pass and that's my two cents. Sweet. Any other thoughts there, Soup? You know, I don't think I can voice them if I had to. Yeah, my final thought is just I'm proud of everybody that's been working hard, you know, to improve their safety and efficiency scores. And thank you for those of you who are engaged. And, you know, the one thing I have noticed since we started this program on January 17th is I feel a little bit more connected with the people on the teams, not even just my team.

But I feel like there's been a little bit more camaraderie and yeah, I'm just proud of everybody, you know, and just thanks for being engaged and doing the thing. That's another really positive effect of this program, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. For the people that are engaged, it's me. I encourage you to get engaged. That's what I said. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Get engaged. Find out what's going on.

Overcome your fears, face your fears, If, you know, if there is something you're afraid of, come talk to one of us, you know, if, if don't be embarrassed, if I'm making up, if you don't have Sam Sara on your phone to check your score, if you know, whatever the case may be, right. If you don't know how to check your score, we are here to help you, you know?

So, and hopefully your, your safety, I'll say manager for lack of a better term, but the, the person leading your safety group, safety coach, thank you, Jam, will.

Know is reaching out to you and saying hey i see you haven't logged into connect hey i i see your safety scores below par hey what can we do to help also don't be scared to reach out to your person though either like you're you know your coach is probably busy you know he's got a coach and she's got a coach 29 other people you know and uh there's a lot of things that go on here during the day so you know it may be up to you to get coaching sooner than later but

you don't get coach eventually but the people that are making noise that want to be coached are getting coached you know the people that are saying hey you know jam can look at my scores real quick yeah i'm helping those people we always say you're the captain of your ship yeah right nobody's going to take care of you but you yeah right you we're not here to mother you but we are here to help yeah so that's right and just because any one of them don't answer definitely leave a message too too.

You know, don't, don't just hang up. I mean, I just, obviously you didn't want to talk to somebody bad enough if you didn't leave a message. Yeah. I mean, the other thing too is, uh, all the groups have, uh, a connect team chat for your group. You can throw it up in the chat that you want to meet or, you know, it's very easy to get ahold of people these days.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, a good example, JR was driving yesterday, you know, I mean, I sure the whole afternoon he didn't talk to anybody, you know, texting or emailing or anything, you know, for an example, I know you, you moved trucks for Mikey, you know, if we're, if we're busy doing that part, you guys aren't available. Yeah. Something goes wrong, we're busy. Yeah. Yeah. Give, give everybody a chance to answer you. Yeah.

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